Jason, To clarify, you sent Scott a solution for PDF thumbnails? I'd be very interested in testing it as well. :) We're still testing XPDF and Terry's Ghostscript solution for PDF thumbnails so I'd love to compare.
Cheers, Alan On 11/27/2013 02:00 AM, Jason Sherman wrote: > I sent Scott a solution based of my jpeg thumbnail off-list for testing. I > suppose I should have kept it on list so that everyone was on the same > page. Live and learn! I can share my version if anyone is interested, but > it sounds like Terry's solution does the job. > > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Terry, >> >> That's very interesting. I just tried your code and it works great, I >> compared it to the XPDF method as well as our the manual thumbnailing >> we've been using (embarassingly) for a few years[0]. The colors in the >> PDF I used as an example are a bit exaggerated, but it's not too bad and >> the thumbnail is much more crisp. >> >> BTW, I made a pull request[1] on your repo to add some installation / >> configuration instructions to your README.md. >> >> Cheers! >> >> Alan >> >> [0] http://i.imgur.com/xzH5tcL.png >> [1] >> >> https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/DSpaceImageMagickThumnails/pull/1 >> >> On 10/15/2013 06:34 PM, Terry Brady wrote: >>> We had a similar need. I created a module to build thumbnails with >>> ImageMagick and Ghost Script. >>> >>> If this sounds useful, you can see the code here. >>> >>> >> https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/DSpaceImageMagickThumnails >>> >>> Terry >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM, RENTON Scott <scott.ren...@ed.ac.uk >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks folks. I've emailed Jason as you can probably see! >>>> >>>> Scott >>>> >>>> Scott Renton >>>> Systems Developer, Library & University Collections >>>> 24 Buccleuch Place, 2nd Floor Right >>>> tel: 515219 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 15/10/2013 16:02, "RENTON Scott" <scott.ren...@ed.ac.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thanks Ivan >>>>> >>>>> I will do- in fact I will mail him now before I forget! >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> Scott >>>>> >>>>> Scott Renton >>>>> Systems Developer, Library & University Collections >>>>> 24 Buccleuch Place, 2nd Floor Right >>>>> tel: 515219 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 15/10/2013 16:01, "helix84" <heli...@centrum.sk> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:31 PM, RENTON Scott <scott.ren...@ed.ac.uk> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> Yeah, that's the code I'm using. I'm not too surprised if the JPEG >> work >>>>>>> is only for images- I would say the PDF thumbnails work is quite an >>>>>>> obscure requirement. Anyway, if this is not changing, I would be >> happy >>>>>>> to tell the users that this is the best they can get for the moment; >>>>>>> they may decide not to implement, but that's up to them! >>>>>> >>>>>> Sorry about the inaccurate first answer. >>>>>> >>>>>> I see that both the fixed JPEGFilter/BrandedPreviewJPEGFilter and your >>>>>> XPDF2Thumbnail use the awt libraries to manipulate bitmaps. Therefore >>>>>> it might be possible to apply the same fixes to XPDF2Thumbnail as were >>>>>> applied to the JPEG filters. Try asking Jason Sherman >>>>>> <jsher...@usao.edu> about it, he's the author of the fixes and might >>>>>> be willing to do it for PDF, too. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> ~~helix84 >>>>>> >>>>>> Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette >>>>>> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >>>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> October Webinars: Code for Performance >>>> Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. >>>> Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most >>>> from >>>> the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. 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